Next year, I’m going to be a junior and I’ve already taken AP Chemistry, AP Biology, and AP World History concurrently as a sophomore.
Is this Junior Schedule Okay?
AP Environmental Science
AP Physics C: Mechanics
AP Psychology
AP English Language & Composition
AP Calculus AB
AP United States History
Intro to Computer Science
6 APs is a lot, but I’m pretty sure that I can pull it off. Tell me which APs may be hard, and if they are tell me what’s hard about them. I feel as I kind of toned the year down by taking AB and not BC as well as taking “BlowOffs” such as APES and Psych.
Thanks in Advance
As pointed out, you are missing foreign language. A lot of colleges expect that, and high schools generally require some for graduation. Also, you’ve already taken AP bio. Are you taking AP environmental science because you are particularly interested in that or just because you are trying to take the max number of APs and looking for “blow offs”? Do you think colleges are unaware which APs are “blow offs”?
@mathyone I’ve already taken four years of Latin and I chose to quit because it is not taught well at my school…
Take EITHER AP Psych OR APES, and replace the other one with a GPA-gratuitous class showing genuine interest in learning. Colleges do not like the “everything but the kitchen sink” approach to APs.
DE and AP have the same rigor. An AP class is essentially a college class taken in high school. Be careful of taking too many AP classes. The law of diminishing returns kicks in after 8 AP’s.
My senior year schedule will be
AP Calculus BC
AP Physics C
AP US/Comp Gov
AP Literature
AP Computer Science A
DE Independent Science Research
World Religions/World of Ideas
Next year I’ll be a junior. Here’s my schedule:
AP Calculus AB
AP Economics
AP U.S History
AP Lang
AP Psychology
DE Physics
Computer Science I
The thing is I took AP Bio and AP Chem this year, but I’m afraid of not having an AP science junior year. Will colleges mind if this is my schedule?
Having DE Physics is the same as having an AP science class.
Remove AP Psychology and take something else.
Senior year, replace AP Lit with Honors English. You already took DE Physics, no need to take Physics C.
I love how students on this site post schedules asking for advice about how it will look to colleges but they don’t say a word about what they are actually interested in. We can’t advise you properly if we have absolutely no idea what your interests, academic, and career goals are.
@MYOS1634 who gives lots of good advice has told you to remove AP psych but that is because it appears? you are just trying to stuff your schedule with the max number of AP classes. Or do you have an interest in psych? We don’t know and the fact that you seem to think we can advise you without having the slightest idea what you like is troubling.
Is the DE physics calculus based? If not, the Physics C isn’t really redundant.
In our school computer science A doesn’t require a prerequisite computer class, and kids with even somewhat limited programming backgrounds have jumped into it successfully. I would think anyone who could take on that list of APs you are contemplating could handle AP CS A, which in itself is a watered down version of the old AB class, without taking a prior year of CS.
Your schedule is very intensely academic and if you don’t need that computer class you might want to replace it with something else. In all honesty, I don’t think a schedule that lacks any language or arts for 2 years is going to impress colleges the way you seem to think it will.
Mostly, I don’t see the consistency or meaning in that schedule, it’s all over the place and seems built on the idea "I shoukdbtzke as many AP 's as possible " without thinking in terms ofbprogression or coherent curriculum.